Katzenberg to receive Academy’s Humanitarian Award

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to present the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The award will be presented at the Academy’s 4th Annual Governors Awards dinner on Saturday, December 1 at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.

A studio executive, film producer and philanthropist, Katzenberg has been instrumental in raising money for education, art and health-related causes, particularly those benefiting the motion picture industry. During more than two decades as chairman of the board for the Motion Picture and Television Fund, he helped to raise $200 million for the organization, created “The Night Before” event and worked to expand the MPTF campus.

He also serves on the boards of such organizations as the California Institute of the Arts, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Geffen Playhouse, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.